Welcome to the new website for Media Safety Training from Lazarus Training. This site is still developing as we add information about our media safety training courses, our thoughts on the sector and about Lazarus Training as a company.

Not all the information we want to share with you is here yet, but that will be changing over the next few hours and days. So please keep coming back.

In the meantime if you cannot find the answers you want on this website give us a call on +44 800 242 5210, drop us an email on info@lazarustraining.co.uk or visit our main website: lazarustraining.co.uk

It is becoming increasingly common for us to see media working in a post disaster zone. The need to share the human story, potentially to help mobilise the necessary emergency response from local or international bodies, requires dedicated people to deploy at short notice into this challenging environment.

For the media organisation sending their staff, into earthquake zones, flooding or post major incident, there is a vast range of safety and wellbeing considerations to be considered. Whilst clearly only one part of the equation, training is often deemed essential.

Our safety training courses are run on a modular format. Each individual organisation can tailor their training requirement, in much the same way as a disaster response is tailored.

All our training courses are based on the idea that we all come to a course with previous experience and ideas, that we learn in different ways, but that the more practical and immersive the training the more effective and lasting the experience.

We have a wide range of learning outcomes which can be woven together to make a practical, empowering learning experience.

Common elements in our Working in a Post Disaster Zone training include:

Planning before the trip

Selection of kit and equipment

Emergency planning

Vehicle and driver safety

Navigation and radio communication

Dealing with people, conflict and aggression

Working in crowds

Water safety/working from boats

Weapon and explosive awareness [please note this isn’t training you to use weapons]

Explosive Remnants of War & Mines

Hostile environments first aid training

Travel health

Post traumatic stress

During our Working in a Post Disaster Zone training package, we break each of these themes down further, into manageable “chunks”. These can then be clearly defined and ensure we have covered the required content properly, we call these learning outcomes.

Some sample learning outcomes from the medical element of the course are:

The medical element of this course is about 50% of the content, often the medical elements are combined with the safety elements, for example using a map and radio as part of evacuating a casualty.

The course duration varies depending on the final agreed content, but is typically between three and five days.

Training can be delivered at one of our training venues in the United Kingdom, but Lazarus Training is experienced in providing its services worldwide.

To find out more about us as a company, you might want to check out our main website, or you can email us on info[at]lazarustraining.co.uk or call us on +44 800 242 5210.

Our media first aid training is all about building confidence and knowledge in life saving skills. But we want people to have easy access to memory joggers and this is were our Lazarus Training app comes in.

Our #trainforreal courses are all about immersive, practical, empowering training. We clearly see the delegates’ confidence and knowledge increase during our time with them. But we all benefit from a bit of revision and recapping, so to make this as easy as possible Lazarus Training app is now available for free from the usual places such as the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Most of us are rarely without our mobile phones nowadays, something which must be great for the speed of 999 calls, but with our Lazarus Training app we can make this an opportunity for that much needed revision.

What’s in the Lazarus Training App?

We have tried to keep the size of the app small [we all know the pains of juggling phone storage], but to give access to the main information you would want. There is a calendar of our forthcoming training events; under Training you will find overviews of many topics from out courses ie AED use; Guidelines has a range of first aid guidelines and mnemonics and of course their is a news section.

We understand that you may not want to hear everything that is going in at Lazarus Training, so you can select what notifications you want and additionally give us feedback, on both the app and our training, via the main menu.

We will be adding new content to the app all the time and as the technology evolves we’ll try and find new ways to use the app. We now have videos embedded into the Training section and plan to increase this over time.

If you are out of signal, or have turned off your data, you can still access the main parts of the app, such as guidelines but you won’t be able to access the video content.

One of the reasons for the app was to ensure that we stay in touch with the great people that have attended our training courses, so we have included a form that you can complete if you use your first aid. We really are interested in your experiences as this can help us adapt the training for the future. So whether you download it to get the guideline reminders, check our training calendar or to let our know your feedback- just download it!

We believe that first aid can be life saving, and that good first aid training is central to this, but there is more than one way to save a life. We now donate to Malaria No More making every delegate that attends our First Aid in Remote Locations course a life saver. So whilst they are learning the skills to save a life, we feel that they are actually saving the life of someone in sub-saharan Africa at the same time.

The work of charities such as Malaria no More is an essential part of the fight against this deadly disease. On our First Aid in Remote Locations courses the delegates are learning and practicing how to deal with catastrophic wounds, but also how to care for a sick colleague, so it’s in keeping that we are so concerned about Malaria.

On the latest course run in the first week of May, our donation allowed testing and treatment to be offered to 100 people, so with 11 delegates on the course that works out at just under 10 lives saved each! Not bad going, especially when you add on the number of times they saved our “casualties” on their #trainforreal first aid training. “Calamity Claire” and “Suffering Sam” [our live role players] had a total of 14 accidents across the course.

If you would like to know more about the work of Malaria No More follow this link, if you would like to know more about our First Aid in Remote Locations course then [again] follow the link, or give us on a call on 0800 242 5210.

Lazarus Training is continuing to develop its training catalogue with an increasing range of media safety training courses. To enable people to find the required information as easily as possible we are developing a range of topic specific websites. Whether its our range of media first aid training courses, our workplace safety training or our first aid training for hostile and challenging environments- you’ll find the key information online.

For example we have specific pages for our first aid in hostile environments training: http://mediafirstaidtraining.com/first-aid-in-hostile-locations

Or maybe you are looking for something a little less..”war like”- then any of our range of media safety training courses from our media first aid training project might be of interest. Information on our First Aid in the Office or Studio, First Aid on Locations and First Aid in Remote Locations courses might be of interest. For these we have set up a mini-website at http://mediafirstaidtraining.com/

As the above courses are relatively new, having been written purely for the media industry, we thought people might like to “see” what the training is like, how it’s delivered etc. To allow this we are constantly uploaded footage and images to our websites, but also to our YouTube Channel. Please note that we have worked with the media for many years- but we are a wide range of media safety training people- not cameramen! Apologies for any dodgy camera work or editing.

If you are interested in talking to someone about our courses call us on 0800 242 5210 or drop as an email to info@lazarustraining.co.uk.

If you want to know more about us as a company, how we work etc then you might want to visit our main website’s blog pages: